TNAG-1597-FCO40-2182-Hong-Kong-1987-Review-of-Representative-Government-1987 — Page 137

1.

SECRET

publication of

the Green Paper to slip from May

to June.

There would however

continue

to be

clear

advantages

in

delaying the

end

of.

the

White

.aper,

and the exercise,

into the

the

publication of

beginning

of

1988.

This

be will

recommendation

exact timing does not need to be decided now.

made in our strategy

paper:

the

7.

For

immediate our

purposes

we

the timing of the publication of

would fall best

need only to decide This the Green Paper.

towards

There would thus

in the

be

light of

the

a

the

the end of May.

month for final adjustments planned conversation between the Secretary of State and Wu

falls within that the date in late April. timing originally established by the Hong Kong Government

business also gives

impression helpful a conducted as usual despite the death of the Governor.

8.

therefore

fact The

The proposed line

the reaffirms

the Hong Kong Government. be so specific about the White Paper, which can

be

that

is

being

Governor

to

for the new to take timing originally established by I do not think he will need timing of the publication of the considered in slower time.

13 January 1987

Colten

CO Hum

Hong Kong Department